APIC and ACPI, etc

[Ian Pilcher]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> Personally, I'm on SMP. APM doesn't work on SMP, whereas ACPI does. So
> I "need" ACPI if I want my computer to be able to do a software-
> controlled power down.
> 

If your hardware has APM support, you can boot with "apm=power-off" to
get power-off support with SMP.

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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